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By a 3-2 vote, the Utah Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission delegated its rulemaking authority to the state legislature on several key issues, the BYU NewsNet reported on Nov. 19.

These issues include whether alcoholic beverages should be sold only in state liquor stores, and labeling requirements for malt beverages and alcohol-infused energy drinks.

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Members of the U.S. Sentencing Commission were sharply critical of the U.S. Justice Department’s contention that retroactively cutting the sentences of about 19,500 crack-cocaine offenders would glut the court system, the Washington Post reported Nov. 14.

Gretchen C.F. Shappert, a U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, cited concern about “the unforeseen consequences of releasing such large numbers of convicted drug offenders into vulnerable communities in a relatively short period of time,” including backlogging court cases and stressing halfway houses. She also suggested that making the sentence reductions retroactive would result in setting violent offenders free.

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